| 释义 |
boil downv.1To boil away some of the water from; make less by boiling. 从…中煮去一些水分;煮浓;熬稠。◆ She boiled down the maple sap to a thick syrup.她把槭树汁熬成了浓的糖浆。2To reduce the length of; cut down; shorten. 压缩;削减;减短。◆ The reporter boiled the story down to half the original length.那位记者把报道压缩到原来的一半。3To reduce itself to; come down to; be briefly or basically. 可归结为。◆ The whole discussion boils down to the question of whether the government should fix prices.整个讨论可归结为政府是否应该确定物价的问题。 |